Rowing High Performance Centre in Pocinho by Álvaro Fernandes Andrade

Looks like a white dragon entrenched in the Douro River Valley, Rowing High Performance Centre was developed specifically for training and preparing high performance, Olympic level athletes, consist of Social Zone, Housing Zone and Training Zone.

The guiding principles and strategies of the project for the Pocinho Center for High Performance Rowing play their part in a dense and inextricable mixture that includes the peculiarities and identity of a pre-existing, specific “place”, the characteristics and demands of a very recent program, and the needs and wants of the architectural act.

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